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Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Wedding cake toppers

Two years ago, friends of us got married. The now-mrs is very creative, so I wasn't surprised she was making a lot herself. I was surprised however when she asked me to make her wedding cake toppers. I mean, I crochet a lot and I give plenty of crocheted toys to babies, but they usually don't care how something looks. The only thing that counts for them is bright colours. And wedding cake toppers feels like kind of a big thing... So I felt really honoured when she asked me! And of course I said yes!
She gave the easiest assignment ever. She found the pattern she wanted, she ordered the yarn, made sure I had everything I needed, so the only thing I needed to do was crochet. Which is my favorite part anyway.
The pattern was much easier than I expected and I finished well in time. The bride finished the beaks and feet herself, so I really had an easy job there. But I still had a lot of yarn left. The bridesmaid and master of ceremony were very close friends as well, so I asked them if the bride and groom could use anything else as surprise and I ended up crocheting lots of little flowers for their guests. The good thing about that was I could do it anywhere. Including the swimming pool! Which I gladly did of course.
We had shortly before moved to the UK, had to renew my as-good-as-expired-passport (it took a bit longer than I expected) and I was starting my new job the same week as the wedding, so unfortunately I didn't make it to the wedding in the end. It made me only happier to know part of me was there anyway in such a prominent place!




Sunday, 9 November 2014

Laly lala sheep

The pattern I got wasn't too good, they used a code I have never seen before and unfortunately they mixed up the code for increase and decrease quite a lot. But with a bit of common sense, I got there! And it is a cute little sheep!

after a pattern by sailly.taobao.com, translated by chunxia.

Monday, 3 November 2014

Mystery finished!



I have to admit, I love the patterns of Christel Krukkert! Too bad her patterns are in Dutch, although, I would gladly translate them if she would like to expand to the English speaking population!


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Sunday, 12 October 2014

Mystery Crochet

Even though I can't stand the suspense of not knowing what will happen, next to my hen party, I've gotten myself into another situation and joined a Dutch facebook-group.

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We'll be crocheting a mystery object, we know it's a toy, we just don't know what it is supposed to be. Every week we'll get the next part, but as I wanted to finish the bunny first, I've been behind since the start. The first part, the body and head, was quite big, so to mix it up a bit, I've done part 2, the snout and belly, in between. And now I've finally finished part 1 as well! However, part 3 was published last week, so I'm still way behind. It's not as much fun to put the pictures on facebook when you're so far behind, so I'll put them up here!

The pattern is made by Christel Krukkert, one of my favorite designers!






Frankie the Bunny

‎I'm totally in love with this cute little bunny! And though I planned to attach it to a towel, I feel it would ruin it a bit. So I'm sending it like this to the future mommy & daddy, together with a separate towel. Plus the London Underground button, as mommy needs to come to London at some point. Hopefully soon!

Pattern by Dendennis (www.dendennis.nl)